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Books for Book Clubs February 2020
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Did you know? The High Plains Library District offers many services to support you and your book club! Book Club Bags: Each book club bag includes 12 copies of the book and a discussion guide, and best of all it comes with a 6-week checkout period! Book-a-Librarian for Book Clubs: Set up a face-to-face appointment for your book club with a librarian. From tips on running a successful discussion to presentations on hot new books, we're here to help! Just follow the link and select "Reading Advice" from the list of options. Personalized Reading Lists: If you'd like the personalized help from a librarian without the face-to-face meeting, this is the option for you! Simply fill out the survey, letting us know about the books your group loved (and loved to hate), and we'll send you a list of suggestions picked just for you! Books for Book Clubs Newsletter: Subscribe to this newsletter for monthly picks that are great for discussion, as well as notification of upcoming events and programs suited for book clubs.
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Fiction - Love and Romance
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What better time to feature discussion-worthy books about love and relationships than February? These four fiction titles run the gamut from sweet to suspenseful, from sad to scandalous - and all four should inspire plenty of conversation!
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Someone Else's Love Story
by Joshilyn Jackson
Twenty-one-year-old Shandi Pierce, who is juggling college and raising her three-year-old genius son, falls head over heels in love with a brilliant geneticist who, in the middle of a stick-up at a gas station mini-mart, willingly steps between the armed robber and her son.
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
Newland Archer begins to question the values of high society in Victorian New York when he finds himself torn between two very different women--his proper young fiancee and her exotic cousin.
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Sweet Tooth: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him. By the award-winning author of Solar.
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The Lemon Orchard
by Luanne Rice
House-sitting a family home in Malibu where she hopes for peace and healing in the aftermath of her daughter's death, Julia is unexpectedly drawn to a handsome man who oversees a lemon orchard, sends his earnings to an extended family in Mexico and hides the pain of his own daughter's loss.
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There are few human relationships as complicated as marriage. These nonfiction texts explore different aspects of this ancient institution and its role in modern life.
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Love Warrior
by Glennon Doyle Melton
A highly anticipated new memoir by the best-selling author of Carry On, Warrior traces her journey of self-discovery after the dissolution of her marriage, revealing how she found healing by rejecting gender standards and refusing to settle for a "good-enough" life.
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Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride
by Lucy Knisley
Presents an illustrated memoir of what happens after the proposal. Fascinated and horrified by the wedding industry the author set out to put her own stamp on the tradition and create the most adorable DIY wedding imaginable.
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Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give
by Ada Calhoun
A collection of poignant essays on the beautiful complexity of marriage, inspired by the author's wildly popular New York Times essay, weaves intimate moments from her own married life with the frank insights of experts, clergy and friends to challenge perceptions and depict more realistic views of married life.
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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
by Elizabeth Gilbert
The author of the best-selling Eat, Pray, Love chronicles how the U.S. government gave her and her Brazilian-born lover, Felipe, an ultimatum--marry or Felipe cannot enter the country again--and how she tackled her fears of marriage by trying to discover through historical research, interviews and personal reflection what this stubbornly enduring old institution actually is.
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